Date of Event
Date(s) - 20/10/2026
7:30 am - 10:00 am
Location of Event
God’s House Tower
Town Quay Road,
Southampton,
Hampshire
SO14 2NY
United Kingdom
Join Us at the Hospitality Networking Exchange – Hampshire Breakfast Meet up Session
- Where: God’s House Tower, SO14 2NY
- When: Friday 15 May 2026
- Time: 7:30 AM – 9:45 AM
- Cost: FREE
Includes light breakfast
Free Networking: 09:45 – 10:00
We’re delighted to invite you to the next Hospitality Networking Exchange – Hampshire, bringing together members of the food sectors including hospitality, catering and food-service professionals, suppliers and service providers from across Hampshire and the surrounding area.
This session will focus on a subject affecting every part of our industry! Reducing the carbon footprint when managing cleaning, and food waste. Sustainability and the changing requirements around packaging and recycling is key in our current climate .
Alongside practical presentations, case studies & panel session, there will be plenty of opportunity to network, exchange ideas and discover solutions that could help your organisation reduce waste, improve efficiency and prepare for future changes.
Our Theme: Practical solutions for food waste, plastics, cleaning and resource efficiency
Wastage across your business is no longer simply an environmental issue. It affects operating costs, compliance, purchasing, menu planning, waste collections, staff practices and an organisation’s wider sustainability commitments.
Our speakers will explore what businesses and public-sector organisations are already doing, practical solutions available to the hospitality industry and some of the regulatory changes businesses need to start preparing for.
Key Outcomes
By the end of this session, you will:
- Reduce food waste and costs
- Improve cleaning and resource efficiency
- Understand plastics and packaging changes
- Prepare for the Deposit Return Scheme
- Discover practical sustainable solutions
- Share best practice and ideas
Speakers
We are delighted to welcome Philip Shelley, who will share insight into how food waste is being addressed across the NHS.
With food being produced and served at significant scale across healthcare, reducing waste requires collaboration across procurement, catering, clinical teams and operational services.
Philip will look at some of the work taking place within the NHS, the challenges faced when managing food waste in complex organisations and the lessons that hospitality and food-service businesses can take from this approach.
2. Turning Food Waste into a Resource – Sylvie Verinder MCIWM | Tumblebug
Sylvie Verinder from Tumblebug will explore practical solutions for managing unavoidable food waste and how technology can help businesses rethink what happens to waste once it leaves the plate or preparation area.
Tumblebug’s Ecobot technology processes organic waste on site, reducing its volume and converting it into a dry soil-conditioning material.
The session will look at how businesses can:
- Reduce the volume of food waste requiring collection
- Understand the financial impact of their current waste-management arrangements
- Explore alternatives for unavoidable food waste
- Use waste data to support sustainability and ESG reporting
- Move towards a more circular approach to waste management
Sylvie will give a case study example Blenheim Palace
We are also looking to include a hospitality case study demonstrating how a large visitor attraction is approaching food waste in practice.
A interactive panel session of our speakers and sponsors to share best practice and knowledge within the room.
3. Do you understand what drinks businesses need to do under the Deposit Return Scheme from 1 October 2027.
What’s Happening with Plastics and the Deposit Return Scheme? Link
Our second session will turn the focus to plastics, packaging and the forthcoming Deposit Return Scheme (DRS).
The Deposit Return Scheme is scheduled to come into operation in England and Northern Ireland from 1 October 2027 and will introduce a refundable deposit on certain single-use drinks containers.
For hospitality operators, retailers, drinks suppliers and other businesses, understanding how the scheme may affect purchasing, charging deposits, on-site consumption, takeaway sales and the handling of empty containers will become increasingly important.
We’ll explore:
- What the Deposit Return Scheme is
- Which drinks containers are expected to be included
- What it could mean for hospitality and food-service businesses
- On-site consumption versus takeaway sales
- Collection and storage considerations
- The wider direction of travel for reducing single-use packaging
- Practical steps businesses can start considering now
Sponsors
A Unique Southampton Venue – God’s House Tower
We are delighted that God’s House Tower is supporting this event by providing the venue and refreshments. Located in the heart of Southampton’s historic Old Town, God’s House Tower is an award-winning arts and heritage venue with a remarkable history stretching back more than 800 years.
The oldest part of the building, originally known as God’s House Gate, dates from 1189 and provided access to the quay. Following the French raid on Southampton in 1338 and the strengthening of the town’s defences, the tower was constructed around 1400 and became an important defensive position overlooking Southampton Water. To find out more click here
Thank you to the team at God’s House Tower for supporting the local hospitality community and making this event possible.
Girbau UK
Thank you to Girbau UK and Nicola Saxon, Area Sales Manager, for supporting the event.
Girbau provides commercial and industrial laundry solutions across sectors including hospitality, healthcare and education. Its solutions focus on improving operational efficiency while reducing the consumption of resources including water and energy.
For hospitality businesses facing increasing operating costs and sustainability targets, laundry is another important area where improved equipment and processes can contribute towards both financial and environmental savings.
The Plastic Solution
Thank you to The Plastic Solution and Chris Tapp for supporting this event.
The Plastic Solution will also contribute to our discussion around plastics, The Plastic Solution removes single use plastic containers from your commercial cleaning chemical supply chain. We want to change how we design, use, and reuse plastics. We cannot simply recycle or reduce our way out of the plastic pollution crisis.
The Plastic Solution distributes UK manufactured, environmental Ecolabel licensed cleaning products that deliver significant ‘cost in use’ savings across all cleaning product applications.
Why Attend?
This event is part of a collaborative initiative led by South Hampshire College Group, Food Allergy Aware and TLC Hospitality, bringing together forward-thinking hospitality, catering, food-related businesses, suppliers and service providers.
It’s your opportunity to:
- Grow your hospitality network across Hampshire
- Meet new suppliers and industry contacts
- Build collaborations and future partnerships
- Share experiences with like-minded professionals
Our Goals
The Hospitality Networking Exchange was created to provide a supportive local forum where food sector business including hospitality, suppliers, service providers, compliance and education can connect, collaborate and share knowledge.
Our aim is to build a stronger hospitality and food-sector community across Hampshire where businesses can refer and support one another, share expertise and best practice, develop relationships with education providers and help promote the wide variety of career opportunities available within hospitality and the wider food industry.
Our previous events have brought together professionals from hotels, catering, education, food safety, technology, training, manufacturing and specialist service providers.
We are open to suggestions for future topics please get in touch – Consultancy@fatc.co.uk
Keep Informed
We have created a dedicated Hospitality Networking Exchange LinkedIn Group to continue conversations between events.
The group provides an opportunity to:
- Connect with people you meet at HNE events
- Share industry news and useful resources
- Promote relevant local initiatives
- Ask questions and exchange ideas
- Support other Hampshire hospitality and food businesses
Please join the group and invite colleagues who may benefit from being part of the network. Link
Reserve your Spot Today
Attendance is FREE, but places are limited to 40.
Let’s connect, collaborate, and grow the hospitality sector together across Hampshire!
If this event is FULLY BOOKED – to be added to our waitlist please click here – we will be in contact should spaces become available
We will send final details out 5 working days prior including recommended parking solutions.